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Slide 1-Title page
Slide 2-Contents page
Slide 3-15 years old is too immature
Slide 4-Drinking age is 18
Slide 5-Crash statistics
Slide 6-Would more instruction time help?
Slide 7-If the licence age is raised what would it look like?
Slide 8-Conclusion
*It is argued that 15 year olds are still far to immature to be responsible
behind the wheel of a car.
*It has been proven that their brains are not mature enough to deal with the
responsibility of driving a vehicle at that young age. (NZ Politics website).
*Dr Rober Isler a psychology lecturer at Waikato university explains that
because the frontal lobe - responsible for skills such as judgment, self-
control and the ability to plan - did not fully develop until a person was 25. It
could take a 15-year-old up to 30 per cent longer than an experienced driver
to respond to problems on the road. For the first six months of driving
unsupervised on a restricted licence, a 15-year-old was 19 times more at
risk of a mishap than a 25- year-old with driving experience.(Move to New
Zealand website).
*In New Zealand we do not feel that young people are responsible enough to
drink until they are 18 years old, but we let them behind the wheel of a car at
15 years old!
* Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a
result of underage drinking; this includes about 1,900 deaths from motor
vehicle crashes. (NIAAA website).
*Young people are over-represented in the crash statistics. Young
people aged 15–24 years are 14.5 percent of New Zealand’s population
and 16 percent of all licensed drivers. Yet in 2008 they were involved in
around 37 percent of all fatal crashes and 38 percent of all serious injury
crashes.
*International research indicates that, particularly before the age of 18,
the lower the age a person starts driving solo, the higher the crash risk.
This risk is greatest at age 15. (Ministry of Transport).
*Introducing a defensive driving course as a compulsory part of
attaining a driving licence will help with not only youngsters, but adults
from other countries who get their licences here but certainly don't
know how to drive properly, especially on NZ roads and in the weather
conditions of this country.(Politics New Zealand).
*So in my view after looking into this more instruction time would be
beneficial to young people getting their drivers licence. Whether that
be at 15 or 18 years of age.
*Learners licence would be held for 6 months from 18 years old.
*Restricted licence would be held for 18 months.
*Drivers would not be able to get their full licence until 20 years old.
*Currently young people get their full licence at 18 years old.
*Based on the issues that I have raised in this PowerPoint I believe that
New Zealand should raise the driving age to 18.
*This would allow young people time to mature before placing themselves
behind the wheel of a car.
What do you think?